Scholars and researchers have tried to discover what personality characteristics go along with success in different cultural experiences. Their findings have often been unclear or incomplete. But three typical characteristics stand out in their reports: patience, a sense of humor, and the awareness of being unclear.
Patience, of course, is the ability to keep calm when things do not go as one wants them to, or as one hopes they would, or even as one was sure they would. Impatience sometimes brings improvements in relations with other people, but usually it does not.
A person with a sense of humor is less likely to take things too seriously and more ready to see the humor in his own reaction than a humorless person. The value of a sense of humor really needs to be paid more attention to.
  “The awareness of being unclear” is a more difficult concept to understand than patience and a sense of humor. Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear as they are newcomers. That is, they do not know what is happening in a certain situation. Perhaps they do not understand the local language well enough, or they do not know how some system or organization works, or they can’t be sure of different people’s roles in what is going on. “It’s like that I just got here from the moon,” a Chinese graduate student who newly arrived in the United States said. “Things are just so different here.”
小題1:The passage mainly tells us ______.
A．a(chǎn)bout some uneasy traveling experiences in foreign countries
B．a(chǎn)bout the three main ways to communicate with foreigners
C．a(chǎn)bout some typical characteristics in different cultural experiences
D．how to show your characters to foreigners
小題2:According to the passage, which characteristic should be focused on most?
A．The ability to keep cool.B．The sense of humor.
C．Patience.D．The awareness of being unclear.
小題3:“The awareness of being unclear” refers to “______” .
A．not knowing what is happening in a situation
B．not understanding the local language well enough
C．being aware that the situation is unclear
D．not knowing how some system or organization works
小題4:By what the Chinese graduate student said, we can learn that ______.
A．he is not used to the culture of America
B．he went to the United States to study the moon
C．he is a person with a sense of humor
D．he has just returned from the moon

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:A

試題分析：本文結(jié)構(gòu)講述跨文化交際應(yīng)具備的三個特點：幽默，耐心和不清楚的意識。
小題1:主旨題：從文章的第一段的句子：Scholars and researchers have tried to discover what personality characteristics go along with success in different cultural experiences. 可知文章講的是跨文化交際應(yīng)具備的特點。選C
小題2:細節(jié)題：從文章第三段的句子：The value of a sense of humor really needs to be paid more attention to.可知幽默是最應(yīng)該注意的一個特點。選B
小題3:句意理解題：根據(jù)最后一段舉例內(nèi)容Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear as they are newcomers. That is, they do not know what is happening in a certain situation.知道是指人們在陌生的或特定的情況下，不知道會發(fā)生什么。選C
小題4:推理題：從最后一段的句子：a Chinese graduate student who newly arrived in the United States said. “Things are just so different here.”可知這個中國學(xué)生不習(xí)慣美國的文化，選A
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